On Saturday 29 May 2010 08:18:37 Martin Strubel wrote: > 1. the bfemu library (that is running on the ICEbear and other FX2 based > adapters) has been hosted opensource at blackfin.uclinux.org initially. > However, it was turned into a mess, so I had no longer interest in > maintaining it there.
bfemu is a dead library and has been for years. that's why we moved to urjtag long ago. and then turned around and pushed it upstream. > 2. I have become aware that some people had been misusing the license, > i.e. doing closed source portions of it it's a BSD license, so no, doing closed source work is not misusing it at all > 3. I have to find a way of covering the development costs, as I'm no big > company like ADI which can afford to outsource tasks to asian countries > to save on costs. much of the work was done in Germany and US ... last i checked, they're not asian. and to clarify, we arent outsourcing to companies to do the work, we simply have some centers in asia regions (like every large tech firm) that hire locally. > The feedback I get from customers prove, that I've gone the right way in > providing a professional tool, including in depth-customer support > (that's what makes the ICEbear a bit more expensive than the gnICE). again, no one said you couldnt do this or you were wrong. i simply explained the choices made to someone who didnt know why they couldnt take an ICEBear and use standard open source tools with it. > ADI can. (Mind you, they still sell their VDSP ICEs above USD 1000). that's simply not true. the current generation sell for $150 and work with both VDSP and open source tools. the gnICE was never an official ADI project nor do we have anything to do with its hardware creation and selling. Bluetechnix handles all of that. -mike
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